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, J. R.' HAWKEY.

' SPRING GEAR PoR BUGGIES. 1

'Patented Feb. 5, 1as4,.

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JM: JW y 'JJM-:ff www 7. @maM/@OLM-/gf- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN E. HAWKEY, OE PARK HILL, ONTARIO, CANADA.

sPRlNG-GEAR FOR Bueeuas.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 292,811, dated-February 5, 1884.

i Application tiled August 22, 1883. (No model.)

. riedas low as a side-bar buggy or carriage,

while retaining at the same time the full benefit of the elastic action and durable qualities of a full elliptic-spring gear; and it consists in the peculiar combinations, construction, and arrangement of partys, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.`

The drawing represents a perspective view, showing my improved spring-gear.

The lower the body of a buggy can be carried the more popular it is with the public, and therefore manufacturers of buggies have devised many arrangements of springgear for accomplishing the desired end; and I am aware that it is not new to attach a vehiclebody to braces 'secured to the side bars, instead of directly to the side bars, and do not claim, broadly, such constructions.

In my invention I employ the side bars, A,- as usual, and clip onto the side bars the iron hanger B. This hanger, it will be noticed, has a center plate, a, upon which the elliptic spring C is clipped. It will also be noticed that the hanger B has parallel bifurcated arms b eX- tending from the plate a to the side bars, A. By thus dividing the hanger B the ends of the elliptic spring C 'are permitted to fit between Y guards to prevent the spring being twisted or thrown out of this square7 and thus obviate d are braces or stays joining together the arms b on opposite sides of the plate a. The hanger B is in this manner strengthened, and by the employment of the braces d, I am able to make hangers of much lighter material than if the braces were dispensed with.

Although my invention is specially designed for buggies, it is of course .applicable to vehicles of other description, and although I illustrate the employment of the ordinary side bars, it will ofcourse be understood that an equivalent for the side bars might easily be designed.

What I claim as my invention is- The plate a, having bifurcated arms b extending obliqueiy from either side of it, in combination with the braces d, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

Toronto,`August 16, 1883.

JOHN R. HAVKEY. In presence of- CHAs. C. BALDWIN, LEwIs ToMLINsoN.

the necessity for the braces generally employed for bracing an elliptic spring. 

